World Conference on the Development of Cities.:
Democratic innovation and social transformation for inclusive cities in the 21st century.
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13-16 February 2008, Porto Alegre, Brazil
About the conference
The World Conference on the Development of Cities has the main purpose of gathering the diversity of democratic innovation and initiatives for the social change, which have been emerging in the last years, creating a collective thinking environment in order to discuss and present experiences, and allowing to approaching city development issues, such as a more organic and systemic development of the cities, and focusing four main subject matters:
1) The Right to the City (Local Policies on the Citizens Rights and Responsibilities);
2) Governance and Democracy in Cities (Innovative Management and Democratic Participation Experiences);
3) Local Development in Cities; and
4) Sustainability and Network-City. These broad subjects will develop into associated subjects, involving, among others, issues such as gender, poverty, youth, immigration, informal labor, environment and violence.
Who should attend
The event is addressed to public managers (city mayors, aldermen, and operators of public policies), university students and specialists, community, business and social leaderships of the democratic participation, focused on urban territorialities and turned to the initiation of a local development in the cities.
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